The Falling’ was a big, flashy, bizarre experience. I kept on saying at the time it was a fluke because I did the audition, and I didn’t think anything would come of it.
FLORENCE PUGHI think everyone’s always interested in playing a spy, right? That’s something we grow up admiring, which is so strange, but it’s just a very clever and quick world that we all want to be a part of.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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I remember being about six years old, for the first day of school, and sitting in the back of a Chrysler, pretending to cry while listening to Tracy Chapman.
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Amazing, obviously. She’s been my idol since I re-enacted ‘Titanic’ and fell in love with Leo. And it’s a privilege to be called the next anything. But I suppose to be the next you is all you can do.
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I like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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And I’m a very physical person: I talk with my hands. And I felt how the clothes took that away from me. And that was the idea, I think. It was a way of limiting women.
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I hope to create characters that people want to watch – and they either want to be or are, or it’s something that they recognize.
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Lady Macbeth’ is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of ‘The Falling’ was not necessarily a fluke.
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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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I think it’s so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed ‘Lady Macbeth.’
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If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move.
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Someone asked if I wanted to be the first female Bond, and I was saying that I don’t think we necessarily need that whole conversation.
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The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
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I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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We actually did perform it in front of all those thousands of people. And just beforehand, we had a little dress rehearsal, and there were all these famous wrestlers going around and watching as well. Terrifying.
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